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Wednesday Night Live 5 March 2025

In this episode of the Wednesday night radio show, the host fields listener questions on topics like Universally Preferable Behavior (UPB), Bitcoin reserves, and Donald Trump's legal issues. The conversation explores the psychology behind pranks and the complexities of social dynamics, shifting to discussions on pickleball and community engagement.

Listeners weigh in on Trump's tariffs, with the host advocating for their role in protecting American industries and clarifying misconceptions about their economic effects. The episode concludes with insights on relationship dynamics for young adults, emphasizing self-understanding. The host encourages listener engagement, fostering a thoughtful dialogue on economic and psychological topics.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good evening, welcome to your Wednesday Night Live, and looking forward to your questions,
00:00:05comments, issues, challenges, problems, whatever is on your mind.
00:00:09I think I'm going to have an argument with Grok about UPB, I'd be quite interested.
00:00:14Be quite interested in its comments, see how well it does.
00:00:21So that, I think, would be kind of cool.
00:00:23That I think would be kind of cool.
00:00:27Alright, let's get to your questions and comments.
00:00:33And yeah, looks like the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is coming.
00:00:38And that's good, that's good.
00:00:41The good thing is that it can't be stolen.
00:00:43Isn't it wild though?
00:00:44Is it a federal judge?
00:00:46Or is it the Supreme Court that has ordered Trump to pay $2 billion in stuff he wants
00:00:51to cut?
00:00:55Activist judges, activist judges.
00:00:58Just wild.
00:01:03Just wild.
00:01:04Alright, so if you have questions, comments, issues, problems, I am thrilled to hear them
00:01:11from you.
00:01:12Alright, what have we got here?
00:01:18Just listen to the Sunday show, Steph Goes to Church.
00:01:22And Bitcoin pumps lol consonants, yeah.
00:01:26Right, Steph says someone, I'm in a remote area and unfortunately surrounded by people
00:01:30on different wavelengths.
00:01:32The other day, two of these misfits got to prank me.
00:01:37I often see pranks go wrong on social media, sometimes leading to death.
00:01:41What's the psychology of pranks?
00:01:44At 14 may be okay, but if men are doing it in their 50s, there's something really off.
00:01:50The prank was going to be one man pretending to murder the other with a knife.
00:01:53Smash my head, I've made it clear to them that I will no longer hang out with them as
00:01:58a threesome.
00:01:59What a great, what a great question.
00:02:03Damn, that is scorching.
00:02:07Yeah, what a fantastic question, thank you.
00:02:14Great question.
00:02:16Pranks.
00:02:18I think I've only done one or two pranks in my life, none of them particularly harmful.
00:02:22There was a guy I was working with, and I spent some time, and I was working up north,
00:02:29we spent some time in a hunting cabin, and I was in the basement of the hunting cabin
00:02:37for some reason, and there were a bunch of stuffed wolves down there.
00:02:41Pretty fresh looking, but stuffed wolves.
00:02:44And so I pranked a guy, we weren't getting along too well, so I guess it was a little
00:02:47aggressive, but I pranked a guy, and there was guys up there from Wisconsin, and they
00:02:55had a bunch of hunting dogs.
00:02:57So I had a little tape recorder, and I recorded the dogs, the hunting dogs growling, and then
00:03:07when this guy was sleeping, I snuck in to his room, and I arranged three wolves around
00:03:16his bed, and I looked so that the reflection of the light through the window would reflect
00:03:21off the wolf's eyes, so that when he woke up, and then of course I left the tape playing,
00:03:26so then when he woke up, he would see three wolf eyes, see wolves in his room, and hear
00:03:35growling, and I'm not saying it was the nicest thing, I'm not saying it was the healthiest
00:03:40thing, but it certainly was a thing, and he took it fairly well.
00:03:44It was in fact quite funny, because it's harmless, he can't get harmed, he just got frightened.
00:03:48He pranked me back in some way I can't really remember, but that was a prank that I did,
00:03:53it was kind of funny, it was wonderful to hear that cry out in horror.
00:04:00But yeah, pranks.
00:04:03So pranks as a whole are to do with punishing people usually for trust, punishing people
00:04:18usually for trust.
00:04:20This guy and I, we didn't get along well, and it's funny because I generally get along
00:04:26with just about everyone, except maybe editors at Wikipedia, but I generally get along, but
00:04:32there's been a few people over the course of my life, just a few, that I have just found
00:04:42gross repulsive.
00:04:43I remember I was in a play, I had to play a guy who went through a stroke and was paralyzed
00:04:48on his left side, and the director duct taped my entire left side so I could feel it and
00:04:53really remember it, and the guy who was playing, the guy I didn't like in the play, I genuinely
00:05:01didn't like in real life, and it's rare for me, but just, I try to find the best in everyone,
00:05:06but there's some people you just, I just rub you the wrong way.
00:05:10And it's like nails, their personality, everything they do is like nails on a blackboard.
00:05:16So pranks, pranks are to do with controlling the responses of other people, right?
00:05:21So you're applying stimulus that they respond to, and it's funny because they're out of
00:05:25control and under your control, like they're out of their own control, it's like a possession,
00:05:31you've seen these pranks and they're kind of funny, right?
00:05:33Where there's a guy dressed as a bush and he kind of jumps up when people are walking
00:05:36by and there's, right?
00:05:38So the reason it's funny, or the scare pranks, the reason it's funny is because the person
00:05:43is in a moment of real vulnerability, they've lost control of their body and you are in
00:05:48control of their body.
00:05:52And again, when you're young, it's just kind of funny, I suppose, I guess I was 18 when
00:05:57I did my prank, but mentally you could argue much younger.
00:06:02So I would say that pranks are invasive in the way that teasing, that teasing is a much
00:06:10darker form of prank.
00:06:11My brother was an absolutely horrendous, relentless teaser, and teasing is the wrong word, it's
00:06:16just kind of like a mental torture.
00:06:19And teasing is sort of much darker because teasing is an attempt to rewrite the script
00:06:24of who you are with repetitive external stimuli, right?
00:06:29And so, but pranks are just a way of invading and taking over the other person so that you're
00:06:36in control of their nervous system, and it can, it certainly can be quite dark.
00:06:43Advice for playing pickleball with mostly women, a lot older and experienced in the
00:06:47game.
00:06:48Yeah, I mean, my wife is pretty athletic, but I mean, I'm almost six foot tall, she's
00:06:54a shade under five foot two, and I sort of, we'll talk about her dino arms, you know,
00:06:59because I have, you know, fairly lengthy grab sticks, and she has these, you know, I can't
00:07:07lob it too much because she's too short, I can't do wide shots too much because it's
00:07:11just kind of unfair, right?
00:07:12It's like playing pickleball with a T-Rex.
00:07:15So I mean, you just have to adjust your, here's what you have to do, you have to adjust your
00:07:19play, you're not there to improve your skills, you're not there to get a super duper workout,
00:07:25you're there to exercise and enjoy the game with someone.
00:07:31So yeah, just, and the other thing too, skill can do a lot.
00:07:36I remember being on a, having a two week vacation on my own after a big project at work in the
00:07:42Dominican Republic, and I played with a woman who seemed very old, I don't know, she's probably
00:07:46in her 70s, and I was in my 20s back then, and she slew me at tennis.
00:07:50She just knew exactly where to place the ball, I just, I couldn't, couldn't win.
00:07:57All right, yes, yes, can we have a bank holiday one day and just talk politics, you know,
00:08:04just for a special indulgent event?
00:08:06Hey, Taylor, nice to see you, it's been a while.
00:08:10All right, from Odyssey, hey Steph, thank you, truly making our world a better place.
00:08:15Well, thank you very much, I appreciate that, freedomain.com slash donate if you would like
00:08:18to help out the show, I would really, really appreciate that.
00:08:23Some guys at the office prank each other by putting a gross picture as their desktop background
00:08:27if they leave the computer unlocked overnight, a little risky, a little risky.
00:08:33I can't wait for tennis season to be back, yeah, have you ever looked into indoor, indoor
00:08:40tennis?
00:08:42Indoor tennis is wildly expensive, just wildly expensive.
00:08:48All right, so, let's see here, somebody says, I remember the scary clown prank Craze ended
00:08:55after someone severely got shot, beaten, or run over with a car, yeah, it's pretty easy
00:09:02to get addicted to pranks, see, human beings, we know this, right, like, as you get more
00:09:07control over other people, your dopamine levels increase, like you, power over other human
00:09:12beings is addictive, and when you can invade, you know, invading other people, gaslighting
00:09:20them invades their sense of reality, pranks invade their, you're taking over their entire
00:09:25nervous system, teasing is, you're trying to take over their brain and replace their
00:09:32self-evaluation with your own self-evaluation.
00:09:39So, this invade, and this is what propaganda, propaganda is the attempt to replace sense
00:09:48data with recreated reality.
00:09:57Is it a thousand per season for the indoor clubs here in Toronto, a thousand dollars
00:10:00per season?
00:10:01Well, plus, you have to pay, you have to pay.
00:10:06Now, if you guys have questions, I'm absolutely thrilled to answer your questions, I did have
00:10:13a wild experience today, hit me with a why, if you would like me to talk about my wild
00:10:18experience today, otherwise, I'm absolutely completely, totally thrilled and content
00:10:25to talk about your questions, your comments.
00:10:30Somebody says, I know you don't generally talk politics, but can you give your latest
00:10:33thoughts on the Trump tariffs?
00:10:35Is it an unnecessary act of economic aggression?
00:10:37God, no, absolutely not.
00:10:39Okay, I'll tell you about your wild experience in a sec.
00:10:41So, there's more economics than politics, and I get, like I get the economic purist
00:10:45argument in a free market for tariffs being bad.
00:10:48The idea that tariffs lead to inflation is just false, just false.
00:10:54Again, in a free market, yeah, they add to the price of things, but inflation is not
00:10:58the price of things going up.
00:11:01Inflation is inflation of the money supply, that's it, that's all, it is not the price
00:11:06of things going up.
00:11:08If everybody suddenly decides that they want to go gluten-free, then gluten-free bread,
00:11:14the price will go up, that's not inflation.
00:11:18Inflation is inflation of the money supply, that's all it is.
00:11:20Do tariffs inflate the money supply?
00:11:23They do not, they do not.
00:11:26Tariffs, at the moment, it's kind of funny, because Canada's, of course, all full of piss
00:11:32and vinegar, right?
00:11:34All full of piss and vinegar about America, because, see, attacking a white right-wing
00:11:40guy, it's just the height of courage these days, you know, boy, you really just have
00:11:45to screw your courage to the stick in place if there's a white right-wing guy, a white
00:11:50conservative, a white Republican, oh, wow, aren't you brave, aren't you brave.
00:11:56Talking trash about that.
00:11:58Go watch Richard Dawkins talking about Islam and see how you do.
00:12:04So the fact that Justin Trudeau is talking all kinds of tough about Trump, it's just,
00:12:14it's hilarious.
00:12:15I mean, it's so pathetic.
00:12:16Anyway, so Canada has tariffs on American goods north of 270%, right?
00:12:24So there's some American goods coming into Canada taxed at 240%.
00:12:28There is huge amounts of, Canada has these, certainly Ontario, maybe Canada has these
00:12:33like eggs and meat, eggs and milk boards and so on, it's all government-run, government
00:12:39supply-side stuff, so it's all, a lot of it is, you're not allowed to import and compete
00:12:43against it, right?
00:12:45So Canada has a lot of tariffs on the US, 20% of Canada's GDP is selling into the US.
00:12:54A third of Mexico's GDP is selling into the US.
00:13:00One-fiftieth of America's GDP is selling into Canada and Mexico, right?
00:13:05So just to reiterate, Canada, 20% of the GDP is selling into the US, Mexico, 33% of the
00:13:09GDP is selling into the US, the US, 2% of its GDP is selling into both countries.
00:13:14It's completely asymmetrical, and I talked about this months ago.
00:13:18Access to the American market is the most important single consideration for anybody
00:13:22who wants to succeed economically, and it is the single biggest market by far in the
00:13:27world, and the fact that tariffs haven't been imposed is pathetically weak.
00:13:33America holds all the cards with Canada and Mexico, and everyone can talk tough as much
00:13:37as they want, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, it doesn't matter.
00:13:40It doesn't matter.
00:13:41They'll talk tough and then they'll make a deal behind closed doors if they have any
00:13:44brains at all, or if they're petty and stupid, like petty, immature, stupid people don't
00:13:49have a fucking clue when they have no leverage.
00:13:52Well, but enough about Zelensky.
00:13:54So yeah, they don't have any leverage, they don't have any control, and going into a trade
00:14:02war with America is like having a fucking hold your breath underwater contest with a
00:14:06sperm whale.
00:14:07Yeah, good fucking luck with that.
00:14:09It'll go down to 5,000 feet and then it'll emit a sonic boom that shatters your fucking
00:14:13spine.
00:14:14So I just find it kind of sad, empathetic, and ridiculous.
00:14:18And it is always the case that idiots don't recognize leverage, and they just go on principle
00:14:27when they have nothing to back it up with.
00:14:30And it's really sad.
00:14:31And of course, it is always other people who pay the price for this posturing, right?
00:14:38This posturing of like, well, we can't give an inch to Putin, he's terrible, okay, whatever,
00:14:44still, Russia is putting far fewer people in prison for social media posts than, I don't
00:14:50know, say the UK, and so on.
00:14:54So there's all this posturing, which makes everyone feel good, we've got an enemy, and
00:15:00we're taking American whiskey, and we're booing the anthem, we're taking American whiskey
00:15:03out of the LCBO, and they're booing the American, oh, our team, our team.
00:15:08The leaders all do the posturing, and the people all pay the price.
00:15:12It's sort of inevitable, right?
00:15:14If Zelensky was on the front lines, you know, he is a fairly fit dancer, comedian, TV star
00:15:20from Ukraine.
00:15:23If he was on the front lines, he might feel just a little bit different.
00:15:28So with a trade war, it goes something like this.
00:15:32If there was a free market, I could understand the argument against tariffs.
00:15:36However, let's say China subsidized like crazy, subsidizes its steel industry like
00:15:41crazy, right?
00:15:43So then steel can be sold very cheaply into the United States now.
00:15:50The problem is, when steel is sold very cheaply, when it's subsidized, and it goes into the
00:15:54United States, the steel industry in the United States staggers and collapses.
00:15:59That's a huge deal, because now you're dependent upon China, a hostile power, for your steel.
00:16:05That's very bad.
00:16:06Also, of course, who pays the social costs of massive unemployment in what used to be
00:16:12the manufacturing belt, and that is now the rust belt?
00:16:15Well, who pays the price is obviously the people, but it's the taxpayers.
00:16:22It's the government, really.
00:16:23It's the future generations because of debts and deficits.
00:16:26So what happens is 100,000 people lose their jobs in America.
00:16:32Then what?
00:16:33Well, it has to pay 100,000 times unemployment insurance, and it has to pay 100,000 times
00:16:38welfare.
00:16:39Oh, and don't you know, if those 100,000 people probably 10,000, oh, my neck, oh, geez, oh,
00:16:45my neck hurts, man.
00:16:47Oh, I think I've got whiplash.
00:16:49Oh, yeah, something does.
00:16:50So they just go on disability, and then they stay on disability forever, instead of paying
00:16:54taxes.
00:16:55They're now taking taxes.
00:16:56Also, when people lose their jobs, they tend to get kind of depressed.
00:17:00They tend to sit around a lot.
00:17:01They don't have a gym membership anymore because that's expensive, and they don't have
00:17:04tennis clubs memberships because that's expensive.
00:17:06So they kind of sit around, eat badly, and they get depressed, and they gain weight,
00:17:11and they get less healthy.
00:17:12So then you have additional bills.
00:17:14Also, when men lose their jobs, in particular, there are lots of divorces.
00:17:19So if there are lots of divorces, that's very expensive for society as a whole, right?
00:17:23I mean, there's trauma for the kids.
00:17:25There is, well, now you need two residences instead of one.
00:17:28That drives up the price of housing, and there's lots of conflict, which lawyers drives
00:17:33up the price of lawyers.
00:17:34So lawyers are less available for other people.
00:17:37I mean, the ripple effects of 100,000 people losing their jobs in a semi-socialist economy
00:17:43like America has, or really most of the Western, all of the Western countries have, the ripple
00:17:48effects are huge.
00:17:50Some people who are older and they lose their jobs, they may choose to take early retirement.
00:17:57So instead of paying taxes, like they're 55, they retire at 55 because it's just too hard
00:18:02to get a job at 55.
00:18:03You can't retrain that easily, and nobody wants you if you're 55, right?
00:18:07So a lot of people, instead of paying taxes until they were 65, they retire, and now they're
00:18:11drawing resources.
00:18:12I mean, maybe not Social Security, which you can't get until your early 60s, I think, but
00:18:16they're still not paying taxes, and they're drawing resources away, right?
00:18:22So there is a massive ripple effect that goes through the entire American economy.
00:18:28It's not just 100,000 people no longer paying taxes, it's 100,000 people no longer paying
00:18:31taxes drawing medical resources, drawing housing resources through divorce, and they are drawing
00:18:40unemployment insurance and welfare and disability because, oh, my neck, man, it's killing me,
00:18:44right?
00:18:45So the ripple effect is absolutely monstrous.
00:18:47So if you allow a foreign country like China to subsidize its steel industry, your steel
00:18:53industry gets destroyed, and all of those skills scatter, right?
00:18:58People retrain, they retire, they go elsewhere, they move back home to some other country
00:19:03if that's where they came from, and the factories fall into disrepair and get aged and so on,
00:19:10right?
00:19:11So then, after China, having subsidized its steel industry, has destroyed your steel industry,
00:19:18then what China can do is it can crank up the price of steel, right?
00:19:22And you can't compete because you've destroyed your entire domestic steel industry.
00:19:26So it is a massive catastrophe.
00:19:27Oh, also, not to mention, but also, when people are unemployed, they tend to get depressed
00:19:32and anxious, and they go through very tough times, their health gets bad, their marriage
00:19:36is under the rocks or on the rocks or divorced.
00:19:40So what happens is they start taking drugs.
00:19:43I mean, you know, the Rust Belt, you follow the hollowing out of the American manufacturing
00:19:51environment, you hollow that out, and the drugs come in, and the drugs come in.
00:19:58And of course, because we have welfare and we have unemployment insurance, people don't
00:20:02tend to move.
00:20:03So you've got, I mean, I remember this in Northern Ontario when I worked up there, there
00:20:07were entire towns where the mine closed down like decades ago, but people are still there.
00:20:14Normally, they should move to some other place where there's economic activity, but they
00:20:17kind of get stuck like a fly in amber, they get stuck, you know, like some guy frozen
00:20:23in the wall of a glacier from the Ice Age 10,000 years ago, they just get stuck.
00:20:28Also, when there's unemployment, and there are drugs, and there is lots of government
00:20:33money sloshing around, you get the breakdown of the family unit, you start to get a lot
00:20:37of births outside of wedlock, because the men aren't needed anymore, because the women
00:20:40are getting all their money from the government.
00:20:43So there's just a massive ripple effect that has a huge impact on the society as a whole.
00:20:50And then you end up under the thumb of a corrupt communist, but I repeat myself, government,
00:20:56say China, could be other places, and your entire industry is gone, and you can't bring
00:21:04it back.
00:21:07That's the problem.
00:21:08Once you kill an industry, it's really hard to bring it back.
00:21:15Why?
00:21:17For a number of reasons, the capital machinery has all decayed, or been pillaged off and
00:21:21sold for parts.
00:21:22How do you get new stuff?
00:21:23It's gone.
00:21:24The 100,000 workers died, retired, retrained, moved away, whatever it is.
00:21:32So you lose all of that expertise and that skill set, right?
00:21:36It takes decades to get a highly functioning team and an efficient supply chain in the
00:21:43manufacturing.
00:21:44Now I know a little bit about manufacturing, of course, because I sold a lot of the software
00:21:50that I wrote was sold, or I sold it into, you know, Fortune 500 manufacturing companies.
00:21:56You'd know them all.
00:21:57I won't list them.
00:21:58It doesn't really matter.
00:21:59But yeah, you would know them all.
00:22:00So I got lots of tour of manufacturing facilities.
00:22:03I got lots of training and had to read up a lot and watch a lot of videos on training
00:22:09for manufacturing because I needed to know who I was selling into.
00:22:12And there's this thing called just-in-time manufacturing, where if you're making a car
00:22:16and you need the steering wheel, you don't want to store the steering wheel, right?
00:22:21You don't want to store 10,000 steering wheels because that's very expensive.
00:22:24So you reach, and I remember a guy describing to me, what they want is you reach for that
00:22:28steering wheel.
00:22:29It only materializes when they reach for it in the moment that they reach for it.
00:22:33It's called JIT, or just-in-time.
00:22:35So that whole supply chain, setting all that up, Six Sigma stuff is just, it's wildly complicated
00:22:41and wildly precise.
00:22:44And it really is like some Rube Goldberg machine that just goes on and on.
00:22:48When that all scatters and vanishes, it's gone.
00:22:53It's gone, you know?
00:22:56It's like if you need to reshoot a scene in a movie a couple of months after the movie
00:23:01has finished shooting, you can't.
00:23:03You know why?
00:23:04Because the actors are all off doing other stuff.
00:23:07They've gained weight, they've lost weight, they have makeup, they're in some jungle filming
00:23:12Tropic Thunder 12 or something like that, so everyone's scattered and they're gone.
00:23:15You can't get them back.
00:23:17So once that expertise is gone, man, it's gone.
00:23:24So what's best for America?
00:23:26Now, of course, I also understand the argument, and I don't want to dismiss it like it's not
00:23:30all negative, right?
00:23:34There's only costs and benefits, right?
00:23:36Outside of moral issues, there's only costs and benefits.
00:23:38There's all trade-offs.
00:23:39So I also understand that if, say, China is massively subsidizing the steel industry,
00:23:46then you get cheaper steel in America, and that ripples through.
00:23:49And that ripples through, and things based on steel become cheaper.
00:23:52Absolutely.
00:23:53However, the taxes are higher than the savings, right?
00:23:58So people subsidize their industries, of course, to buy votes in the local economy,
00:24:02but also to harm their ideological or economic competitors slash enemies, right?
00:24:09So China will lose money, like it will raise its taxes or raise its debt to subsidize the
00:24:16steel industry, but it will harm America more than it harms China, otherwise they wouldn't
00:24:25do it in general, right?
00:24:28So that's the foundation of the trade war.
00:24:34Now, of course, any country that engages in tariffs has no right, no moral right to complain
00:24:40on tariffs being imposed upon them.
00:24:43But America, as I said before, has the biggest market.
00:24:46It's insane how big and expensive and wealthy the American market is.
00:24:50And again, I say this having spent many, many years selling into worldwide markets.
00:24:56I sold into Europe, I sold into China, I sold into Mexico and Central America, never got
00:25:04to South America.
00:25:06And the American market is staggering.
00:25:11It's multitudes larger, people have multitudes bigger budgets, and they make decisions much
00:25:17quicker.
00:25:18My God, try selling into Europe.
00:25:20Oh my God, it's insane.
00:25:22There's always some reason why nothing can happen.
00:25:24Well, it's spring, the weather's pretty good, people aren't in the office.
00:25:26Well, it's summer, everyone takes a month off in the summer.
00:25:29Well, it's fall, people are off seeing the leaves.
00:25:31Well, you know, around the month of Christmas, you really can't get anything done.
00:25:34Like everything's so slow.
00:25:37It's like slow motion signal, oh, it's horrendous, horrendous.
00:25:46China, they'll do a lot of talk and then they'll just take your IP.
00:25:49So, because I did, I spent about a couple of weeks in China selling the software as
00:25:55well.
00:25:56And to be fair, some of them were good.
00:25:57And I actually really liked the Chinese people.
00:25:59It's the old thing, like never confuse the government for the people.
00:26:01The Chinese people were great, very funny.
00:26:03I was referred to as the big nosed foreign person, which I actually found quite hilarious.
00:26:07So yeah, but really, really fun.
00:26:09And you know, when they whip out the ping pong battles that you're toast.
00:26:13And also what's interesting is that traveling to China to do business, at least when I did
00:26:18it back in 1999, traveling to China to do business is funny because it's like traveling
00:26:22back to the set of Mad Men, like it's like traveling back to the three martini lunch
00:26:261950s advertised, because they just drink all the time at lunch.
00:26:30And I'm not much of a drinker, so, but you know, take one for the team to make the sale.
00:26:37So yeah, you put in tariffs to stimulate domestic production.
00:26:41It's not inflationary compared to no tariffs and having your entire industry hollered out.
00:26:48Right?
00:26:49Because when you lose a hundred thousand jobs and you have to switch from income, from taxes,
00:26:57from the government's perspective, you're not getting taxes from these people anymore.
00:27:00Instead, you have to pay out massive amounts of money.
00:27:03As I said before, like employment insurance, welfare, drugs, healthcare issues, retraining
00:27:09costs like this, just so much that goes on.
00:27:13Now all that you have to print money for, and that's what's inflationary.
00:27:16You have to print money to cover the costs of a hundred thousand people no longer paying
00:27:20taxes, but instead needing billions of dollars of resources.
00:27:24So and a good chunk of them don't come back into the workforce or certainly don't come
00:27:31back at the same rate.
00:27:33So let's say you've got some guy he's been in manufacturing for 20 years, makes a hundred
00:27:37thousand dollars and then he's got to go get a job somewhere else.
00:27:39Well, can he get immediately a job outside of manufacturing for a hundred thousand dollars?
00:27:44He cannot.
00:27:45He cannot.
00:27:47So even if he gets back into the workforce, it's going to be at a lower rate and you're
00:27:51going to get fewer taxes from him and he's still going to be kind of depressed and unmotivated
00:27:55because if you go from a hundred K to 50 K, it's kind of depressing.
00:27:59I was deplatformed.
00:28:00I know a little bit about, a bit of a dip in income, just a tiny bit, that's it.
00:28:07So yeah, so the trade war is Trump is sitting on the goose that lays the golden eggs, which
00:28:14is access to the U.S. market, and he has absolutely every right in terms of the Chile international
00:28:19economic sphere of negotiations, he's got every right for companies that have a lot
00:28:24of tariffs on importing goods into exporting goods to their economies.
00:28:29The countries have a lot of tariffs.
00:28:30He's like, well, you've got a lot of tariffs on us.
00:28:33We are going to restrict your access to the incredibly wealthy, decisive and productive
00:28:40American economy if you don't fix immigration and fentanyl.
00:28:46We don't want a bunch of people pouring across the border and we don't want a bunch of Americans
00:28:52to the tune of what, a hundred thousand a year dying from fentanyl or other drugs.
00:29:00Is that, and again, we can talk about pure free market theory and that's fine, but we
00:29:05do have to deal with the real world.
00:29:07Is it unreasonable to say if you're sitting on a massive gold mine that people should
00:29:14deal with you fairly in order to access it?
00:29:18The purpose of tariffs is to eliminate tariffs and restore free trade, but you cannot eliminate
00:29:26tariffs and restore free trade by asking nicely.
00:29:29You can't do it by having no tariffs when other people are putting tariffs on you and
00:29:33have for decades.
00:29:35It's not inflationary because in the 19th century, tariffs were 98.5% of the American
00:29:42government's income, because no income tax, 98.5% of the American government's income
00:29:52in the 19th century was tariffs and inflation was functionally 0% because there wasn't a
00:29:59big ass central bank just printing a bunch of money, at least not consistently.
00:30:06I don't know if you've ever, if you've ever negotiated and I've done, look, obviously
00:30:12I'm not far from it, right?
00:30:15But I have done a lot of negotiations with big companies, both domestically and internationally
00:30:23and negotiations are a carrot and a stick.
00:30:27They are a carrot and a stick and the stick is tariffs.
00:30:33The carrot is access to the U.S. market.
00:30:38Now is it fair to ask countries who want access to your golden goose U.S. market to say control
00:30:44the fucking borders and stop killing our citizens with your fucking drugs?
00:30:54Tell me how that's corrupt, insane, evil.
00:30:58I don't see it.
00:30:59Now again, in an ideal world, free trade, absolutely.
00:31:03But unfortunately in the world that is, the world is controlled by vainglorious, idiotic
00:31:10assholes playing for the mouth-breathing, low IQ domestic base.
00:31:15Whoa, America bad, boo the anthem, right?
00:31:23What are you going to do, right?
00:31:26What are you going to do?
00:31:27It was like Zelensky, right?
00:31:28Craps all over Trump and Vance.
00:31:30And then, oh, it was so sad, it was so pitiful to see all through Twitter Zelensky then running
00:31:35to all of the other leaders.
00:31:36Oh, oh, oh, and all the other leaders like, oh, we got your back, cell boy.
00:31:41Oh, we got you, baby.
00:31:42Don't you worry.
00:31:43We love you.
00:31:44Fuck Trump.
00:31:45We love you.
00:31:46Oh, that's just so sad, right?
00:31:47I mean, that's just so pitiful, right?
00:31:48And then of course he's got to come back because the Europeans are like, well, I guess we could
00:31:52dig you up some Neolithic era flint bows and Canada can send, you know, probably two-thirds
00:32:00of an F-16 and they say, okay, right.
00:32:03So it's just leverage.
00:32:05That's all it is.
00:32:06Just leverage.
00:32:07And to act in the best interest of American citizens is to prevent illegal immigration,
00:32:14to prevent the flow of fentanyl over the border and to restore manufacturing because this
00:32:19is another reason why when an industry, it's what's called the Rust Belt for a reason.
00:32:25It doesn't come back without extreme action because the other thing too is that investors
00:32:30don't want to invest in the newly resurrected smoking crater of a former industry.
00:32:36So if the steel industry gets wrecked in America, right, and remember the oil industry in America
00:32:42in part was wrecked and undermined because Saudi Arabia, a massive oil producer, of course,
00:32:47was funding environmental groups to oppose drilling in America, right?
00:32:52That they were literally working for a fundamentalist dictatorship and it was not organic, right?
00:33:00It was just funded by people who make more money if America doesn't drill its own oil,
00:33:06right?
00:33:08So what are you going to do?
00:33:14Are you just going to cling to abstract principles that nobody else is clinging to and watch
00:33:21the whole country go down the drain?
00:33:25I don't see how.
00:33:28Like if you're playing by the rules and everyone else is cheating, you're going to lose.
00:33:36If you want to look at it from a libertarian standpoint, you would look at it from the
00:33:40position of self-defense, right?
00:33:42Other people are initiating force against American producers by putting tariffs on exports
00:33:49from America and so you are responding in kind, which is a form of self-defense.
00:33:58So I hope that helps.
00:34:00Yes, yes, yes, so good.
00:34:06Thank you, Taylor, if you find this helpful, I would really, really appreciate that and
00:34:16let's get back to your questions.
00:34:22So when other people, like retaliatory tariffs, I mean, in other eras, a country, you got
00:34:36to look at something like fentanyl as a bioweapon, right?
00:34:40It is an act of war to send fentanyl into a country because you are slaughtering its
00:34:47citizens.
00:34:48Oh, well, yes, but the people choose to take it.
00:34:50I get all of that.
00:34:51I get all of that.
00:34:52I really do.
00:34:53I understand all of that.
00:34:55I understand all of that.
00:35:00But nonetheless, 100,000 people are dying.
00:35:01So if you look at it that way and you say, look, to respond to flooding our country with
00:35:07a deadly poison, slaughtering 100,000 people a year, we are only imposing tariffs, that's
00:35:12about as mild a response because there are a lot less mild responses that have taken
00:35:17place throughout the course of human history.
00:35:20Look what China did and you can see this in my documentary, Hong Kong Fight for Freedom
00:35:25free-domain.com slash documentaries.
00:35:29But look at how China responded in the opium wars to opiates flooding their country, right?
00:35:44All right, Henry Hazel's book, Economics in One Lesson, talks about how tariffs cause
00:35:52all sorts of problems, but quite frankly, it's the norm.
00:35:55Trump is doing reciprocal tariffs and he's using it to penalize countries that have done
00:35:58horrible things to the U.S.
00:35:59Yeah.
00:36:00Yeah.
00:36:01Well, and of course, the other thing too, is it encourages people, sorry, I forgot to
00:36:08finish this point.
00:36:09My apologies.
00:36:10So if the, when the steel industry, in our sort of theoretical example in the U.S.,
00:36:15when the steel industry is eviscerated because there are foreign tariffs and goods flooding
00:36:19in that are subsidized, and there's a whole World Trade Organization that you're supposed
00:36:22to be, go to, to get the subsidies taken off, but it's slow and difficult.
00:36:26So when the steel industry is destroyed because of the cheap influx of foreign goods, foreign
00:36:33goods like steel, then the only way you can resurrect it is with investment, investment
00:36:43in the hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars to resurrect the steel industry.
00:36:49Now, the problem is in the spin cycle of American politics, you get, you know, Democrats, Republicans,
00:36:57Democrats.
00:36:58Now, Democrats are in general anti-capitalist.
00:37:01So they're going to do whatever harms the economy.
00:37:03So they're going to lower tariffs.
00:37:04And of course, the other thing that Democrats want to do is they want to do harm to Republican
00:37:08voters and people who work with their hands, people who work with manufacturing, people
00:37:11who work with actual tangible material reality, as opposed to doing the spinal massage on
00:37:16silky language for a living.
00:37:19They tend to be more practical.
00:37:20They tend to vote Republican.
00:37:22So they want to throw those people out of work so that they end up dependent on the
00:37:26government, right?
00:37:27So when you take manufacturers who vote Republican as a result of being practical and having
00:37:31an income, and you put them on welfare, maybe get them addicted to drugs or certainly in
00:37:36need of subsidized or free government healthcare, well, they no longer want small government
00:37:40because now they're on the receiving end of government largesse.
00:37:43So the problem is you're going to ask a bunch of people to invest a whole bunch of money
00:37:47in the manufacturing of steel and to resurrect a more abundant industry.
00:37:51The problem is that who's going to invest all that money if, you know, the Republicans
00:37:56get in.
00:37:57They say, man, it's good for business.
00:37:58You ought to start up the steel industry again.
00:38:00By the time they get it up and running, the Democrats are in power and remove all the
00:38:04tariffs and you get flooded with cheap goods and hundreds of billions of dollars goes up
00:38:08in smoke.
00:38:11So thank you.
00:38:12I'd rather invest in AI, right?
00:38:13So all right, so let's see here.
00:38:22What do you think of historical freak shows?
00:38:23Oh, I think they're gross.
00:38:24I think they're gross.
00:38:25All right.
00:38:26A question.
00:38:27How involved should parents be in helping young adult children, sorry, I missed that,
00:38:41a date and find a spouse?
00:38:42Early things suggest that parents play matchmaker due to modern dating and marriage laws being
00:38:46so horrible.
00:38:47Well, you can play matchmaker, but you can't control your children, right?
00:38:51Once they become adults and you can't really do much to control them once they become teenagers.
00:38:55So I think it's a good idea.
00:38:57I mean, you can give advice and you can give feedback and so on.
00:39:01But I mean, the best way to teach people is through empiricism, right?
00:39:06So if you've got a kid who's dating some, let's say you've got a daughter, she's dating
00:39:09some guy who's got a bad temper.
00:39:11Okay.
00:39:12Well, she says, no, no, no.
00:39:13It's not really that bad.
00:39:14Well, you just invite that young man over and you provoke him till he explodes.
00:39:23And then she can see it.
00:39:26You don't need to lecture if you can prove that.
00:39:30Lyonson says, I saw a video of Ukrainian troops, kidnapping a man, walking his dog and sending
00:39:34him to the front lines.
00:39:37Yep.
00:39:38Yep.
00:39:39All right.
00:39:40Somebody says, all Chinese steel was once American steel.
00:39:50Finished goods come in by container from China and then scrap is loaded into the empty containers
00:39:55and then sent back to China.
00:39:56Oh, yeah, that's interesting.
00:39:58And of course, the other thing too is that the whole goal, of course, is by shielding
00:40:04your industries from subsidized foreign goods, then you are encouraging the development of
00:40:13domestic industries.
00:40:14Again, with this sort of caveat before that you don't want the Democrats to come in and
00:40:18destroy the investment again.
00:40:22A lot of human capital is also wasted.
00:40:25Joe says, I used to work in the oil and gas industry until Biden shut it down.
00:40:28All the knowledge I learned, I haven't used in four years because I'm in a different industry
00:40:31now.
00:40:32Yeah, that's right.
00:40:34And of course, manufacturing standards have changed and you're not growing with it.
00:40:39Would you want to get lured back into an industry that's subject to so much political control?
00:40:44It's another thing, the oil and gas industry, because of often foreign funded environmental
00:40:48groups is subject to such wild levels of random subsidies or punishments and so on.
00:40:57So people don't want to get into that industry because it can be shut down based upon environmental
00:41:01hysteria and so on.
00:41:06Somebody says, OEM and aftermarket car part quality has gone to crap.
00:41:10During COVID, all the foreign QA people in China went home and they haven't returned.
00:41:15All the foreign QA people in China went home.
00:41:18I don't know what that means.
00:41:19Do you mean that they went home from China or they were from China in America and then
00:41:23went home?
00:41:24I don't know what that means.
00:41:28My only follow up question.
00:41:30I'm happy to answer questions, but a donation or two, I don't mean to nag you, but a donation
00:41:36or two would not be the end of the world.
00:41:38Freedomain.com slash donate.
00:41:40Come on, it's good stuff.
00:41:41All right.
00:41:43Let's see here.
00:41:44Oh, I lost my spot here.
00:41:51Hang on a second.
00:41:54Hang on a second.
00:41:55We'll get it.
00:41:56All right.
00:41:57It says the domestic production on ramp will take years, i.e. auto manufacturing and steel
00:42:02production won't tariffs just increase expenses for consumers who have no alternative in the
00:42:06short term.
00:42:12But here's the thing.
00:42:16Here's the thing, and this is a tipping point, so really, really important to understand.
00:42:20It's not just in America, but it's in the West as a whole.
00:42:26It's in the West as a whole.
00:42:32People are so disgusted by what their countries have become that economic considerations are
00:42:38no longer the forefront.
00:42:41You can see this in social media.
00:42:43If you look carefully, you know, the Democrats will try any key, right?
00:42:50The manipulators will try any key to open the lock to control your heart.
00:42:54So they'll say, well, you know, the price of this is going to go up.
00:42:56And people are like, I don't care.
00:42:59My country's going to shit.
00:43:01I don't care if fucking eggs are more expensive.
00:43:07It's the end of the Roman Empire, bro.
00:43:11I don't give a shit.
00:43:14I don't care.
00:43:15I can't afford a house.
00:43:16I can't get a fucking job.
00:43:18I can't get my life started.
00:43:20Video games are getting tiring, boring.
00:43:23Even the video games are ugly and retarded now.
00:43:27I got nothing.
00:43:32But the price of eggs might go up.
00:43:33I don't care.
00:43:38This is my last chance at reform before burning the whole fucking thing to the ground.
00:43:42I don't care.
00:43:47Many expenses go up and you should run.
00:43:49What do I care if the price of houses go up?
00:43:52If you need half a fucking million dollars worth of income to afford one.
00:43:58I don't care.
00:44:00What do I care if the price of cars go up?
00:44:04If I can't afford a car?
00:44:09I don't care.
00:44:14People are there.
00:44:15A lot of people, especially younger people, and tell me if I'm wrong.
00:44:19People are like, I have no economy.
00:44:20I have no future.
00:44:22I have no capacity to consistently date, to settle down, to get married, to get property.
00:44:29I can't get a consistent job.
00:44:30I mean, especially the white male thing, a lot of white males shut out of the job market
00:44:34through various government imposed quotas, right?
00:44:39So I don't care.
00:44:41What do you care?
00:44:43Oh, but economically, it's like there is no economy.
00:44:47For a lot of people, there's no functional economy.
00:44:51There's no functional economy.
00:44:53Oh no, it's like, it's so just for you and I, it's like, hey man, if these tariffs go
00:45:01up, the price of Lamborghinis is going to go up like 20%.
00:45:04I don't care.
00:45:05I can't afford a fucking Lamborghini.
00:45:08What do I care about the price of Lamborghinis?
00:45:16And certainly in America, it's like, okay, so if the price of X, Y, and Z is going to
00:45:21go up, but I can get a job, they're fine, right?
00:45:27Oh, well, you know, but if we put these tariffs up, then the price of goods coming into the
00:45:30country is going to go up.
00:45:32Yes, but I could get a job.
00:45:35So I'd rather have a job and have eggs be more expensive than have eggs be cheaper and
00:45:41not have a fucking job.
00:45:43Because if I have a job, but eggs are more expensive, I can still buy eggs.
00:45:47If I don't have a job and eggs are cheaper, I can't buy eggs, right?
00:45:52You see how this kind of works, right?
00:45:56Oh, the costs are going to, it's like, no, no, no, like there's a huge bunch of like
00:46:02lean hungry, angry young people circling at a fair distance from the economic fires with
00:46:07no chance to get closer.
00:46:10And they're like, man, whatever the fuck happens, it's got to be an improvement because
00:46:13this is all a complete shit storm and quicksand.
00:46:16Like I can't get ahead.
00:46:19I'm working two jobs and I still have to take in fucking roommates and I can't afford a
00:46:23car.
00:46:24And now they're hitting congestion pricing in places, right?
00:46:28So this, well, you know, things could be more expensive, you know, can my prices go up?
00:46:33It's like, I don't care.
00:46:36I don't care.
00:46:37I'm not going to sell my country for the sake of 15% cheaper eggs.
00:46:45I'm not going to have no future, no economic future for my children for the sake of cheaper
00:46:52cars in the here and now.
00:46:54You can't sell my children's future for the sake of 25% cheaper Canadian made fucking
00:46:59cars.
00:47:00No, I make sacrifices for my offspring.
00:47:06And young parents are like, I don't want to live in a country where I have press nine
00:47:12for English, right?
00:47:15People don't care.
00:47:18People don't care that they're not moved anymore by the price of things are going to go up
00:47:25if they have no income and no future.
00:47:27And their children are facing economic ruin down the road, right?
00:47:33Well, we got to bring the, you got to bring the deficit down.
00:47:36If you don't bring the deficit down, nothing else matters because the deficit is just deferred
00:47:40taxation and inflation.
00:47:42You got to bring the unfunded liabilities down and you got to bring the deficit down.
00:47:46Otherwise, nothing else matters.
00:47:49Nothing else matters.
00:47:50Well, uh, but, uh, you know, by bringing the deficit down, we might raise the price of
00:47:54eggs.
00:48:00I don't know what to say.
00:48:02You know, if I break out of prison, I might skin my knee.
00:48:07I'm unjustly imprisoned, but to break out of prison, I might pull my shoulder a little.
00:48:13You don't want to pull your shoulder or skin your knee.
00:48:15Do you?
00:48:16Uh, how about we just get out of fucking prison?
00:48:19That's kind of the priority, so all right.
00:48:30Uh, number one reason my Asian girlfriend wanted to breed with me was because of my
00:48:33high bridge nose.
00:48:35At the markets in remote Asian towns, I'd be a celebrity because of my nose.
00:48:44Excellent.
00:48:50So yeah, somebody just posted, I read this off before, just how much tariffs are going
00:48:59on in America.
00:49:02It's wild.
00:49:03Oh yeah.
00:49:04Oh, bird flu.
00:49:05The bird flu that apparently only affects chickens.
00:49:06Don't you remember the whole thing under Biden?
00:49:07Like meat processing, plants, chicken, poultry farms, like all the food, they're all going
00:49:08up in flames.
00:49:09I assume it's all domestic terrorism and I assume it's not unknown to the powers that
00:49:10be.
00:49:11So.
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00:51:27I have not read the fourth turning.
00:51:31Oh, I'm guessing if this is true, the Canadian
00:51:34government does this to subsidise the industries within because taxes are so high here.
00:51:39If barriers to entry weren't in place, there may not be much of those industries left in Canada.
00:51:44800,000 for a house in California.
00:51:46Yes, but I do hear that the house prices have dipped a tiny bit in Washington, DC.
00:51:54Ah, sorry, clarity. Companies that produce products in China employ non-Chinese QA people
00:52:00for quality control. Chinese COVID policies forced them to go home and they haven't returned.
00:52:04Chinese car park quality has gone to hell because they're foreigners responsible for
00:52:07keeping the Chinese factories honest are gone. Right.
00:52:10There's only one thing you need to know when evaluating another culture. Do they have the
00:52:17same moral obligations for outsiders that they do for insiders? Are they tribal or are
00:52:20they universalists now? Christianity is by far, and this group, but of course we have
00:52:25the numbers of Christianity, but Christianity is, as far as I know, the only truly universal
00:52:31belief system. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you and where moral obligations
00:52:37are for everyone, not just for people in your group.
00:52:45Trump wants to increase entity production that would lower the cost of everything. Yeah,
00:52:48for sure. Thank you for sharing the call and show. My father tore me apart. The caller
00:52:53was wise for his age and excellent analysis. Thank you.
00:53:00Peter Schiff, the crypto reserve is just another bailout. Are we going to see a huge
00:53:04exit after the pump? I mean, obviously I like Peter. We've done shows together over the years,
00:53:08but it's just a de-jerk response. Like he's just so all in on crypto. He's become a bit of a joke,
00:53:14right? Look, I've talked about the value of gold. I mean that the value of a tangible
00:53:19asset you can hang on to, the value of gold is considerable. Gold is a real asset.
00:53:25And, you know, when Peter and I did our debate like a decade ago on Bitcoin versus gold,
00:53:32yeah, gold has real value. Gold is part of a reasonable economic portfolio.
00:53:37But for Peter Schiff, crypto is just, you know, some sort of gay scam or whatever he
00:53:48would refer to it as. So, I mean, to me going to Peter Schiff or any objective response on crypto,
00:53:59it's like going to Jim Cramer for any objective response on anything. All right. Tariff is only
00:54:07on import price, not final retail. I vote for a company that imports a commoditized product.
00:54:11Our overseas vendor absorbed 35%. The US-based company absorbed 35%.
00:54:17Thomas Massey has officially reintroduced the end the Fed bill according to Telegram posts. If true,
00:54:22is it just hot air? Look, I mean, the Fed is not going to end. Political power
00:54:31says soft political power and there's hard political power. Hard political power is just
00:54:35arresting the shit out of your enemies and throwing them in gulags, right? Concentration
00:54:38camps, mass slaughter, Cambodian shit. That's hard political power. Soft political power
00:54:44is bribing people with the entrails of their descendants, right? So you sell the children
00:54:50off to foreign banksters and then you bribe people with the money carved out of their children's
00:54:54innards, right? It's like organ selling their children's futures and then giving people money
00:55:01in the present. So soft political power is when you create the illusion that government is adding
00:55:06value because it can print money. So without the Fed, you don't get soft political power anymore
00:55:18because if the government can print a hundred billion dollars and put it into the economy,
00:55:23people feel that value has been added to the economy because the GDP goes up and then later
00:55:30there's this mysterious inflation, right? Which people don't connect. Not one person in 10,000
00:55:34can connect it back to the government printing money out of thin air. So government creates
00:55:38the illusion that it's adding value to the economy by printing money. If you end the Fed,
00:55:44the government can't do that. And then when people who are physically addicted to power
00:55:50lose soft power, which is the illusion of adding value through counterfeiting,
00:55:54what do they go to? Are they just going to say, well, you know, good run. We had a good run. No,
00:55:58they'll switch to hard power. The debt I owe got to sell my soul. All right. Chicken farmers don't
00:56:08want to kill their chickens. They're forced to by the government to either take pay out and kill or
00:56:11they will lose insurance. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Oh, sure. Birds in Mexico were okay from what I've
00:56:24heard. I really didn't want to be a troll, but I feel like Steph really needs me to be.
00:56:33I completely forgot about you from last week. Oh dear. I did not see the movie, The Fall of
00:56:41Minneapolis. The 2020 election was rigged in many ways. I mean, I talked about this at the time,
00:56:46the 2020 election was altered to Biden's favor by something that everybody acknowledges,
00:56:53which was the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. The suppression of the Hunter Biden
00:56:57laptop story based upon a bunch of alphabet agencies saying that it was Russian disinformation
00:57:02changed the vote. 60% of votes, 16% of voters would have switched their vote, which would have
00:57:06been enough to keep Trump in power. Good thing or bad thing. Trump has certainly come back roaring
00:57:10with a vengeance, but yeah, for sure. Been a while since I caught a live stream.
00:57:20Been a while since I caught a donation.
00:57:38What do we got here?
00:57:40Oh, hey, Steph. How do you know when it's time to look for a new job? When donations collapse,
00:57:50should I interpret passive aggressive behavior from my boss and narrowing my role as an exit
00:57:54sign or should I try to stick it out? If your boss is not training you to be his replacement,
00:58:01you need a new job. I mean, in general, if your boss, your boss should be wanting to move up.
00:58:08So there are bosses that want to move up and they're looking to train their replacement because
00:58:11they can't move up until they train their replacement. So that's a competent boss who
00:58:15wants to move up and is responsible for managing his own career. Now, if your boss, you know,
00:58:27the Peter principle that people get promoted to just one step above their competence and then
00:58:32they sit there, right? Because people get promoted and promoted until they no longer do a good job.
00:58:37And then they sit there doing a bad job, right? So if your boss has reached his peak competence
00:58:43and he can't move up anywhere, then he's going to resist you. He's not going to mentor you.
00:58:48He's not going to develop you. He's not going to bring you along. I mean, one of the things I love
00:58:52to do in the business world, the most of all was to mentor people who worked for me. You know,
00:58:57I had a guy, it's like, Hey man, how do you do the sales thing? I'm like, come on, let's go.
00:59:03Let's go. Come with me. I'll introduce you as a technical liaison and you can watch me do
00:59:08my magic and you can watch me listen and negotiate and so on. And it's funny because
00:59:15I actually went to a bait and switch meeting, an ambush meeting, not as bad as Joe Rogan number
00:59:20three, but it was a meeting where the customer asked me to come down ostensibly to buy more
00:59:26stuff, but then wanted to complain about a bunch of stuff. So he got to see me, you know,
00:59:29listen and negotiate and calm their jets and all of that and figure out how to resolve the issue.
00:59:35And he was like, no, I don't want to do that. Just let me go back to my keyboard. I was like, okay.
00:59:40So, but now mentoring people is really, really important. I desperately wanted people,
00:59:44you know, I did like six years of business travel and I was great. Sometimes I was traveling two
00:59:49weeks a month, sometimes three weeks a month. It was a blast. I was a young single guy for
00:59:53the most part, and it was just great. I loved it. And then I got tired of it because, you know,
00:59:58get, get tired of this stuff after a while. So I was very, very keen to have somebody be
01:00:02able to do what I did. So mentoring people to get them to replace functions you're doing.
01:00:07If you, if you have a boss who's sabotaging you, it's because that boss is no longer able to move
01:00:11up. Now he's a fucking log jam then. It's like an artery killer, right? Like the widow maker
01:00:15by the hop dead, right? So your pipeline to move up is blocked by the Peter principle.
01:00:20It's blocked by someone who's got nowhere to grow to.
01:00:24So if you're at all ambitious, you want to keep moving up. And if some guy is up there
01:00:29and he's clogged because he, nobody wants him to move up because he's hit his peak competence,
01:00:33then you've got to go sideways. You could do a lateral transfer and try and find some way up,
01:00:36but you have to find your way up, man. Find your way up. Keep reaching for the stars. Keep reaching
01:00:40for the top. Find your way up. You're like a bubble. Just get stuck somewhere. Just slide,
01:00:44move up, right? You're like water running down the side of a mountain, hit rock, just go around it,
01:00:49find some move up. It's fun. It's fun. It's exciting. It's challenging.
01:00:58You know, we are born to strive. We are muscles born to strain and stress and strengthen,
01:01:04try more, risk more, endanger more, fuck up more. All right. If you're not fucking up,
01:01:14you're not really trying. You've got to really try. So if your boss is not mentoring you
01:01:21and encouraging you to develop your skills and encouraging you to replace them,
01:01:25you're stuck and you've got to find some other way up. You've got to find some other way up.
01:01:35Does it not seem bipolar, Steph shitting on one comment, then reading the next unbiased?
01:01:41Wait, sorry. Am I effeminate or bipolar or both? Or do you just throw out these terms
01:01:46because you've got a thesaurus and no particular conscience? All right.
01:01:51To be fair, Chinese domestic products are of worse quality than those exported in the past.
01:01:55All Chinese products that did not pass foreign QA testing got dumped on the local markets. The
01:01:59Chinese treats each other just as they treat foreigners, badly. In mainland China, there is
01:02:04no China loyalty, no buy China. Chinese prefer foreign brands and products because they are
01:02:09better quality than locally produced. Good to know. Thank you. I'm writing my resume right now,
01:02:15says a fine watcher. I feel like I could stick around, but I'm seeing some concerning signs.
01:02:22Lots of dishonesty all around me. Oh, this is sorry. I thought you meant the live stream for
01:02:25a second here. I'm back. Job increasingly less comfortable, maybe just a sign of the times.
01:02:32Well, you know, the body organizations right from the head down. If your boss is corrupt,
01:02:37then your time is a countdown, right? It's a countdown.
01:02:45Do you consider holding shares of a gold exchange traded fund
01:02:48to be the same as holding gold bullion? I'm actually storing physical gold.
01:02:54I don't understand.
01:02:59Are shares of a gold ETF the same as physical gold? Well, of course they're not.
01:03:05One is a piece of paper or something on a computer, and the other is physical gold
01:03:11you can hold in your hands. Do you know the difference between pornography and a real woman?
01:03:17So no, they're not the same, but they have pluses and minuses, right? I mean,
01:03:21it's just a matter of pluses and minuses. Gold ETF shares are, you know,
01:03:29you don't have to store them physically, and they're a whole lot easier to trade and sell.
01:03:32It's the old question of cold storage versus having stuff, having crypto on an exchange.
01:03:38Cold storage is more secure, but you can't really trade it. And having stuff on an exchange
01:03:43can be risky, but you can actually trade it easier. So it's just
01:03:47costs and benefits, man. You just got to get this thing in life.
01:03:51There are no answers outside of moral issues, right? There are no answers.
01:03:53They're just costs and benefits. That's all, just costs and benefits. We all do this, right?
01:03:58Ah, maybe I could get a hotter girlfriend, but this one's,
01:04:00she's really cute. She's very funny, right? So you could let her go and you could try and get
01:04:05a hotter girlfriend. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. Bird in the head, worth two in the bush,
01:04:09who knows, right? So there's no answers for these things. Should I hold the gold or just hold shares?
01:04:20There's no answer. There's no answer. Should I keep my crypto on an exchange or in cold storage?
01:04:28There's no answer to that. There's costs and benefits to both. If you want to trade,
01:04:34cold storage is bad. If you want security, you're less secure on an exchange. There's no answer.
01:04:39Should I rent or buy? There's no answer to that.
01:04:44People who rented but put their money in crypto over the last 20 to 15 years did pretty well,
01:04:50right? So there's no answer. Don't look for these answers.
01:04:54And anybody who tells you there is an answer when there are only trade-offs
01:04:59is so full of shit their eyes are brown. There's no answer. There's no answer.
01:05:06There's costs and benefits to gold. There's costs and benefits to crypto.
01:05:09There's costs and benefits to renting. There's costs and benefits to resting versus working.
01:05:15If all you do is work, you get burned out. If all you do is rest, you're broke.
01:05:19Life is a rhythm. Life is a pulse. There's costs and benefits to exercise.
01:05:25If you exercise, sometimes you'll injure yourself. If you exercise, it takes time away from other
01:05:31things. If you don't exercise, you get to usually not get injured and you have more time to do other
01:05:37things. If you waste that time, that's bad. There's costs and benefits to asking girls out.
01:05:42If you go up and ask a girl out, you might get shot down and feel bad.
01:05:46But you got to never let that stuff accumulate. Never let rejection accumulate. It's not fucking
01:05:50barnacles. It's not layers. It's not sediment. Never let rejection accumulate. You get rejected,
01:05:56shake it off. Reset to zero. Fucking start again. Do not let rejections accumulate.
01:06:02Well, this girl said no. Oh, now I feel like minus nine bad or minus nine good. Yeah,
01:06:12minus nine good because it's a minus, right? Not double negative, right? Minus nine bad is
01:06:15plus nine good. Oh, I asked this girl out. I feel minus nine bad. Okay, I feel a little better.
01:06:22Okay, now I'm at minus two bad. Okay, now I'm okay. Oh, I asked this girl again. That's a
01:06:27pattern, man. That's a pattern. Now it's minus 10. It's minus 11. It gets worse. Paralyzed. Done.
01:06:32Forget it. Forget it. Don't do it. Don't fucking do it. Do not let negatives accumulate. It's a
01:06:38bad idea. You ask some girl out. She says no. Yeah, that's negative, of course, right? Reset
01:06:45to zero. Ask her out. Ask some other girl out. Now, if you keep getting rejection, it's your fault.
01:06:53If you keep getting rejected by people, it's your fault because you're aiming in the wrong place.
01:07:01Listen, there's some girl out there who will go out with you for sure, but if you're aiming
01:07:07too high, if you're aiming too high, right, if you're overshooting your mark, right,
01:07:14if I went to go and get a job as a neurosurgeon, I would be rejected 100% of the time, except maybe
01:07:21in India because I'm not a neurosurgeon. I have no training in the matter. I can't do it. I'll
01:07:27often cut myself while peeling an apple. Not my thing. If you aim too high, it's your fault that
01:07:35you keep getting rejected. So, if you're just some average looking guy and you keep trying to
01:07:39ask out these uber hotties, they're going to look at you with scorn and reject you. So, why are you
01:07:44getting rejected? Because you're an idiot. You've got to aim at your level, but don't let negatives
01:07:58accumulate. If negatives are accumulating, your system is telling you you're aiming wrong.
01:08:06Twitter shut the New York Post story immediately. Yeah, absolutely.
01:08:17This is a really useful and great answer. Yeah, there's no way to move up at all. Yeah.
01:08:21If you can't move up, move out. I'm moving out.
01:08:27When should I change careers when donations collapse? Aha, I get probably 20% of the
01:08:36subtle jokes. Steph is so funny. Yeah, low donations. Laugh, I thought I'd cry.
01:08:44Oh, but regarding the job, they treat me like a kid even though I'm highly competent. Walking on
01:08:48eggshells, promotion is only lateral movement to other departments. They move me from one
01:08:52department to another downgraded role. The PETA principle. People get promoted one level beyond
01:09:02their level of competence. You can't downgrade them because they'll get too bitter, but then
01:09:07people have to live with bad stuff. You know what it's like? The best way to remember it is,
01:09:14let's say you're the fastest runner in your high school, and then you're the fastest runner in your
01:09:19group of high schools, and then you're the fastest runner in your county, and then your state, and
01:09:24then you get to the nationals, and you just get smoked. You're left in the dust, right?
01:09:31I was definitely the best actor in my university, and I say that. It was not a huge university,
01:09:36so it wasn't like a huge deal, but I always got cast in the lead role, and I never even
01:09:40had to audition. I always got cast in the lead role. Then I went to theater school,
01:09:46and I was kind of middle of the pack. There were definitely better actors,
01:09:49definitely actors that weren't quite as good. I was just kind of the middle of the pack.
01:09:52I hate being the middle of the pack. I hate being the middle. For me, win big or crater. That's it.
01:10:01Everything on Red 22, I hate being in the middle. I hate being in the middle of the pack.
01:10:06I'm going to win, or I'm going to crater. I don't want anything in the middle. That's just my
01:10:10preference. I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing. I'm the kind of guy, right or wrong,
01:10:14good or bad, I'll go for broke. I'll go for everything. I will fly high, I'll reach the moon,
01:10:23or I'll crater into Phobos.
01:10:29Now, if a manager isn't going to mentor you, he's going to sabotage you, right? Because
01:10:36a manager who's insecure, a manager who's, you know, the pointy here, like the faking,
01:10:41the faker manager, the guy who doesn't really know what's going on and is past his level of
01:10:44competence, he doesn't want other people to show him up. So he's going to constantly sabotage
01:10:52employees. All right.
01:11:06If your boss is looking at you under a microscope and ignoring his own mistakes,
01:11:09he's probably trying to take you out because you're a threat to him. Yeah, for sure. And
01:11:12the other way you know that the guy's never going to promote you or mentor you is if he steals your
01:11:18ideas. All right. Eric says, Steph, I have a dating prospect. How do I transition from a friendly
01:11:25conversation to getting her to go out with me? Is that really only worth 10 bucks to you? All
01:11:29right. Probably going to spend a lot more than that on the date, but that's all right. I'm just
01:11:33a little surprised. Maybe don't. No, I won't say that. Oh, every now and then I self-censor.
01:11:41It's rare. It's rare. Normally there's no filter, but a little bit here. All right. I have a dating
01:11:47prospect. How do I transition from friendly conversation to getting her to go out with me?
01:11:50Well, of course, that's the wrong language. You can't get someone to go out with you. So
01:11:56I'll tell you what women like. I know this because I just watched Baby Girl.
01:12:00Oh, repulsive. Anyway, so you don't get her to go out with you.
01:12:09The way to do it, in my humble opinion, women don't want you to stare at them and get lost in
01:12:16their eyes. Women want you to be having a great adventurous life and invite them along. So you say,
01:12:22I'm going to go and do this cool thing. Be great if you came along. Would you like to come along?
01:12:27I'd love it if you come along. I'm going to a Renaissance fair this weekend. Want to come
01:12:34along? Or it'd be great if you came along. I'm going. Do you want to come along?
01:12:40Not. Well, do you want to go to a movie this weekend? So then she realizes deep down
01:12:48that you going to the movie is dependent upon her saying yes. In other words, if you don't say yes,
01:12:52if she doesn't say yes, you're not going to the movie. So now she is in control of what you do.
01:12:57Women do not want to be in control of what men do. Because if women are in control of what men
01:13:01do, men can't go out there and compete with other men. And don't chicken out from calling it a date
01:13:18because that's bad, right? Because the last thing you want to do is go out and have a fun date.
01:13:21Then she mentions her boyfriend at the end, right? That's terrible. Like you don't want to
01:13:26get involved in that. Thank you, Joseph. Yeah, you don't want to get involved in that.
01:13:31So yeah, I'm going rock climbing this weekend. Love it if you came along. I'm going treetop
01:13:39trekking this weekend. Love it if you. I'm going to a party this weekend. Love it if you came along.
01:13:44And if she says yes, just so you know, this is a date. No obligation, but it's a date.
01:13:52Right. I don't want to be hearing out a boyfriend later on, but it's a date, right?
01:13:56So just be aware, right? And that's exciting for women.
01:14:05All right.
01:14:12What do you think about silver?
01:14:17I don't really think about silver, I'm afraid.
01:14:18All right. Need some more tips to keep this stream going. That's kind of true.
01:14:27That's kind of true. You might get poached by another boss if you're useful to them,
01:14:32but end up in the same position where you can't surpass them.
01:14:38Don't give me this paralytic bullshit. Come on, man. All due respect. Well, you know,
01:14:44you might, you might, if, you know, let's say you have cancer,
01:14:48you might cure your cancer, but then you just get MS or get hit by a bus or an asteroid.
01:14:55No, no, don't do it, man. Don't do this. Well, you know,
01:15:03you might, you might jump off the sinking ship into a lifeboat,
01:15:08but then the lifeboat could itself sink. Oh, God, it's so depressing.
01:15:14I can feel like the sand of my testosterone pouring out through
01:15:18the hole in the base of my spine, coughed by that.
01:15:23Sad little statement. You know, maybe you could try another route, but you could get blocked there
01:15:30too. Is that what you do when you're driving and the GPS says, there's a huge accident,
01:15:37traffic is stopped for hours up ahead. Here's your alternative route. You say, well,
01:15:41there could be another accident on that alternative route. So I guess I'll just stay here for hours.
01:15:51Well, I could brush my teeth, but the problem is maybe I'll just get punched randomly on the
01:15:55subway tomorrow and lose my teeth anyway. So what's the point? You can invent any scenario
01:16:01to paralyze your sorry ass. Don't fucking do it. Don't do it, man. Don't do it.
01:16:07You gotta try something. You gotta try something. If you're lost in the woods and no one's coming,
01:16:12you gotta go somewhere. Well, but you might go in the wrong direction. Yeah, but you can't stay.
01:16:16You gotta go do something. Gotta make some decision in life.
01:16:29All right. Now that I'm older, I wonder why I'm still here.
01:16:37Rejection. Yeah, for sure.
01:16:42Thank you, Dylan. What do you think about Trump's crypto reserve stuff? I have some friends who
01:16:45were upset that it wasn't Bitcoin only. Yeah, well, Sabita Schiff went a little nuclear and
01:16:52I'm not saying entirely wrongly. It's like, okay, so Trump put out this announcement about a
01:16:56strategic crypto reserve mentioning every dog crap hawk to a coin except Ethereum and Bitcoin.
01:17:03I'm sure that caused the prices of those to rise. Was he handed a script? I don't think Trump knows
01:17:09about all of this stuff and there's no reason why he would. Was he handed a script so that other
01:17:12people could do a pump and dump? Oh, I don't know, man. It looks a bit odd. It looks a bit odd.
01:17:18So the crypto reserve, I think it's great. Oh, but the government, I get that. I understand that.
01:17:25But here's the thing. You want the government to be invested in crypto so the government
01:17:36protects the value of crypto. In other words, if the government, this is something I talked about
01:17:40months ago, that if the government wants to pay off its, I don't know about unfunded liabilities,
01:17:46it's a different matter, but if it wants to pay off the debt, then it accumulates crypto,
01:17:51the value of crypto goes up, and it exchanges crypto for debt. That's the only way out other
01:17:58than complete default or money printing to Weimar levels of Zimbabwe dollars.
01:18:11So a crypto reserve is great. I want politicians to own crypto. I want the U.S. government and
01:18:16all governments to own crypto. That way they will not destroy the value of crypto. Plus,
01:18:21the government owns crypto. I hope it's going to be public so people can see if anyone's
01:18:24sneaking it out, right? They should absolutely publish their holdings so that people can see
01:18:30if any of it's being pilfered. That would be like a real-time corruption index.
01:18:34Glad to see your RumbleLive viewers growing. Wishing you the best, Jeff.
01:18:37Thank you very much. And thank you for the tip. A little something for your excellent work tonight.
01:18:42I make all my donations at month end, but I wanted to give you something tonight. Thank you. Thank
01:18:45you. Thanks, Jeff. Let me grab more coins. Thank you. Appreciate that. I bet Steph plays a solid
01:18:56game of pickleball. Well, you know, I've won tournaments. I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good.
01:19:05What were you going to say, by the way, before you self-censored? I can take it.
01:19:09Well, if somebody basically says, I'm really attracted to this woman, how do I get her to go
01:19:13out with me? And he gives me 10 bucks for how to do that. What I was going to say is, well,
01:19:22maybe don't be so cheap, right? Because let's say the woman knew this, right? Let's say the woman
01:19:29knew this, right? Well, I asked a guy who knows, listen, I know a lot about dating. I know a lot
01:19:34about dating. I really do. I know a lot about dating and asking girls out. I won't go into all
01:19:39of the numbers, but I know a lot about dating and asking girls out. So if you were to say,
01:19:46well, I was going to ask a guy who's like a really smart guy, great philosopher and fantastic at
01:19:51figuring out how to ask girls out. I asked him how to ask you out. And I even gave him a donation.
01:19:57And she's like, oh, wow. You went on a live stream and asked a great philosopher how to get me to go
01:20:05out with you. And you donated to him for that. What was I worth to you? And you say, 10 bucks.
01:20:17You better hope you're sorry, ass. She never ever watches this live stream, brother. You better
01:20:24hope. I'm so desperate to go out with you. I asked a real dating expert on how to get you to go out
01:20:31with me. And that was worth like getting you to go out with me was worth 10 bucks.
01:20:40Yeah, maybe you're broke. And I sympathize with that. Lord knows I've been broke
01:20:44in my life on a fairly regular metronomic basis. So I get all of that and I sympathize with all
01:20:50of that. But since you asked, I wonder why donations are cratering. I don't know, actually.
01:20:59I don't know. Sometimes it just kind of happens. Sometimes it just kind of happens and kind of
01:21:04comes and goes. And yeah, I don't know what it is. I don't know. I don't know if I'm doing anything
01:21:08wrong, if I am. My family interjected all that paralytic crap with anything I wanted to do. Oh,
01:21:15yeah. Oh, it's terrible. It's terrible. Somebody says I asked a girl out at the gym. Later on,
01:21:27found out she has a boyfriend. She doesn't realize I found this out. She still won't tell
01:21:30me she's taken. She probably likes the attention. Could be. Could be something else. She might want
01:21:36to be Genghis Khan, right? She might want to be taken away from her current boyfriend.
01:21:43And if you really, really want to have an exciting life, you know, if you really want
01:21:47to have an exciting life, and I'm not saying it's necessarily bad or wrong, because until
01:21:53there's a ring on the finger, it's just 1v1, right? If you want to have a really exciting life,
01:21:59you take a girl away from her boyfriend. You make the case and you get the transition. Now,
01:22:05if she's been going out with him for years, blah, blah, blah, it's probably a bad idea.
01:22:08But if it's not that long a relationship, they've gone out for a couple of months,
01:22:11once or twice a week or whatever it is, they're not moved in together, right? But,
01:22:14you know, then you Genghis Khan, right? You go and you take her away from, I mean,
01:22:19obviously, she chooses, blah, blah, blah. But maybe she hasn't told you about her boyfriend,
01:22:24because you're on her list, bro. You're on her list of maybes. So go
01:22:29make the case. If you think she's great, go make the case.
01:22:36Steph, I'm going to donate as soon as I get a new job. I feel good donating to you when I can.
01:22:40Mr. Streams a lot. Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
01:22:44I ask girls to have dinner with me on the spot sometimes, if we're at a food court,
01:22:48and they make eye contact with me, or we have a quick convo. Yeah, for sure.
01:22:54Yeah, all's fair in love and war, man. All's fair in love and war.
01:23:05Have you ever done the, thank you for the dip. Have you ever done the extraction?
01:23:08You ever done the airlift? Right? Ever done an airlift? I was close once. I've never actually
01:23:14done it, because I don't want sloppy seconds. But, yeah, I mean, there was a girl I was
01:23:21interested in, and she had a boyfriend who was a drummer on a cruise ship.
01:23:26So, of course, I told her at Nicholas Cage movie, where he's like some angel, and the woman's like,
01:23:39are you homeless? He just stared at her, and she's like, are you a drummer? What's worse to
01:23:45be homeless than being a drummer? What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend? Homeless.
01:23:49So, it's a drummer on a cruise ship. And I was within sight of sealing the deal, and I was just
01:23:57like, but she did choose a guy who's a drummer on a cruise ship. So, even though she's real pretty,
01:24:04there is that judgment aspect. I don't want to be the guy after the guy on the cruise ship.
01:24:09That's not a thing that I want to do. But, I mean, yes, I mean, if she hasn't told you she
01:24:17has a boyfriend, it's because you're on a possible list. It also means things aren't going well.
01:24:24So, I don't mean to make this face. I have the most repulsive drink known to man.
01:24:29I mix some protein powder into my decaf, and let me show you the dog's breakfast
01:24:35that I have going on here. Look at this. That's my drink. Oh, my God. It looks like a machine
01:24:44gunned Indian ass. I mean, good Lord, look at that drink. And unfortunately, it is not.
01:24:50What if she's engaged? I wouldn't do that. Yeah, I wouldn't get involved with that,
01:24:54because her recovery time is going to be huge. So, yeah, I have. This is my drink.
01:25:01Oh, my gosh. It looks like somebody took a cheese grater to the biceps of somebody who over-tanned.
01:25:13So, I keep taking this drink, and it's like Satan shat talcum powder between my teeth.
01:25:23Look at that. I've still got, you don't need to know all of this, but I still have
01:25:29vomit powder between. There's got to be easier ways to build muscle. Well, I actually am building
01:25:34my muscle, because I'm basically doing ab work here, because I keep, I'm about to dry heave,
01:25:38but no, holding it back. The things I do for philosophy. Actually, that's not even for
01:25:43philosophy. That's just for a few muscles. Can't believe Skype's going down, man. Skype is gone,
01:25:49baby. Skype is going, was it May? Something like that. Microsoft has this uncanny ability to buy
01:25:58cool software and to turn it into pure, unadulterated ass. You notice that? It's like
01:26:04this wild alchemy. Do you have something that's non-ass? We at Microsoft want to pay you an
01:26:12ungodly amount of money in order to transmogrify your non-ass into pure, unadulterated ass.
01:26:20And not of the BBL kind, but of the forgot-to-wipe kind. It's wretched.
01:26:30Wretched.
01:26:33My God, it's almost an hour and a half. Time flies. How will you do call-ins now without
01:26:38Skype stuff? Oh, we'll figure something out. I'll figure something out. It's just the problem is,
01:26:45much though I love all of my listeners, no matter what, I've got this weird powder between my teeth.
01:26:55It's like I swallowed the Pillsbury Doughboy, turned him into ash, and accidentally sneezed
01:26:59him into my sinuses. Come on, we've all had that experience, haven't we? I'm just one among many.
01:27:07The problem is, if I say, oh, let's use XYZ platform, I'm going to have some older listeners
01:27:12who are like, huh? Is it built into Windows? Well, first you just need to install Linux in
01:27:18a virtual machine, and then Linux, Linux, Linux. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what I'll use,
01:27:25but I got a little bit of time to figure it out.
01:27:29All right, last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems, whatever you like.
01:27:35I'm here for you. I'm here for you.
01:27:40I just was reading a story. My wife, my daughter, and I will sometimes,
01:27:46I'll sort of read a book, a short book, whenever, and we did a,
01:27:53I did Outrageous Italian Accent. Enzo di Italiano. I just did Outrageous Italian Accent. It's about
01:28:00as accurate as Luigi the Plumber, but I do enjoy. Exaggerated accent time is fun and funny. All
01:28:07right. Microsoft software assassins. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, but an assassin, well, I guess Skype is
01:28:14finally being assassinated, but yeah, to fumble an early lead in video software prior to COVID,
01:28:22that takes some real skill, man. That takes real skill. That's like having the only piece
01:28:27of cheesecake in a vegan menu. The fan eats Anonymous and nobody eats your cheesecake.
01:28:33That's really, really something. That's really something. But yeah, if you're subscribers,
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